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The following is a list of the 427 games that were available on the Virtual Console for the Wii in North America. These games could also be played on the Wii U through Wii Mode, but lack the additional features found in Wii U Virtual Console releases. The games are sorted by system and in the order they were added in the Wii Shop Channel. To ...
In some games, a cheat code might be necessary to reach the sound test screen (such as in Sonic the Hedgehog 3), or some other specific method is needed to unlock it, such as "buying" it with earned credit for achievements in-game. In other games, the sound test is unrelated to cheat codes and is often among the last items to be unlocked.
The Wii system software is a set of updatable firmware versions and a software frontend on the Wii, a home video game console.Updates, which could be downloaded over the Internet or read from a game disc, allowed Nintendo to add additional features and software, as well as to patch security vulnerabilities used by users to load homebrew software.
The team built Sonic CD using the original Sonic the Hedgehog code as a base. [11] Sonic CD was conceived as an enhanced port of Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega CD, but it gradually developed into a separate project. [11] It was titled CD Sonic the Hedgehog first [12] before being renamed Sonic CD. [13]
Nintendo continued to sell the revised Wii model and the Wii Mini alongside the Wii U during the Wii U's first release year. During 2013, Nintendo began to sunset certain Wii online functions as they pushed consumers towards the Wii U as a replacement system or towards the offline Wii Mini, though the Wii Shop Channel remained available. [ 68 ]
Homebrew, when applied to video games, refers to software produced by hobbyists for proprietary video game consoles which are not intended to be user-programmable. The official documentation is often only available to licensed developers, and these systems may use storage formats that make distribution difficult, such as ROM cartridges or encrypted CD-ROMs.
Sonic Z-treme is a homebrew Sega Saturn game that aims to recreate concepts from the canceled game Sonic X-treme using original code. It can be made to run on real Saturn hardware if it is burned to a disc. [18] Sonic the Hedgehog 2 HD is a high-definition fan remaster of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in development.
AHX is an implementation of MPEG2 audio and the decoding method is basically the same as the standard, making it possible to simply demultiplex the stream from the ADX container and feed it through a standard MPEG Audio decoder like mpg123. The CRI ADX header's "sample rate" and "total samples" are usually the same as the original but other ...